Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

All references to 'our', 'us', 'we' or 'company' within this policy and within the opt-in notice are deemed to refer to the Eight O'Clock Coffee Company.

We endeavor to protect your personal privacy. We provide this privacy statement to help you to understand what we may do with any information that we obtain from you. By providing your personal details to us, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to this statement, please do not provide your personal details to us. This privacy statement is incorporated into, and is part of, the Terms and Conditions, which govern your use of the site in general. We will use your information for the purposes set out below.

We may need to update this privacy statement from time to time. We recommend that you regularly check this page to ensure that you have read the most recent version.

COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can decide what personal information you provide to us. We will only collect personal information that you choose to provide. Where possible, we will enable you to select how we will use this information (for example, by choosing to opt-in or opt-out). You may choose to provide us with personal information if, for example, you: contact us with an inquiry; register on the site, request us to provide you with information, enter a competition, or take advantage of a promotion.

You have the opportunity to decide whether or not to receive communications from us at any point where we request information about you.

By providing any personal information to us, you fully understand and clearly consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such information. Any such transfer and processing by us will be in accordance with this privacy statement.

USE OF COOKIES

In common with many websites, we use "cookies" to help us gather and store information about visitors to our Site. A cookie is a small data file that our server sends to your browser when you visit the Site. The use of cookies helps us to assist your use of certain aspects of the Site.

You can delete cookies at any time or you can set your browser to reject or disable cookies. If you do so, you will not have access to many features that make your the visit to the Site more efficient, and some of the services on the Site will not function properly.

Traffic monitoring, e.g.
- the IP address from which you access the site
- the type of browser and operating system used to access the site
- the date and time of your access to the site and the pages you visit
- the internet address of the website from which you accessed the site

To recognize repeat visitors for statistical/analytical purposes.

Anonymous tracking of interaction with online advertising. e.g. to monitor the number of times that a banner ad is displayed and the number of times it is clicked.

We may connect the information that we collect through cookies with other personally identifiable information that you provide to us. Such purposes are:

To customize or personalize your experience of the site; for example, so that we can greet you on the site by name. 2. To monitor your use of our website(s) in order to make our communications to you as relevant as possible; for example, by sending you email communications relevant to the parts of the site that you visit most often or by letting you know about features of the site that you have not accessed previously.

We may compile and report to third parties (such as advertisers) aggregate statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic patterns and related site information.

USE OF INFORMATION

We will use information collected from you in the following ways:
Marketing Communications. We may use your personal information in order to communicate with you about our products and services and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates, and parent companies and any of their related businesses. However, you will be able to choose whether or not to receive such communications when you first provide personal information to us. You may also unsubscribe from such communications at any time (see "Unsubscribe Instructions" below).

Marketing Analysis. We may use information for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst our consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to our websites. We may also share non-personal information with others, such as advertisers, in aggregate anonymous form, which means that the information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you.

Third Party Offers. We may arrange for carefully selected organizations to send you marketing and promotional information that may be of interest to you. In such circumstances your personal information may be disclosed to these organizations who will agree to be bound by the terms of this privacy statement. We will obtain your permission before we send you any such communications.

Sale and Transfer. In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us.

Administration and Data Management. We may transfer your personal information to third parties under confidentiality obligations when the performance of any service in relation to the activities above is sub-contracted (e.g. the administration of a marketing campaign).

Legal Purposes. We may disclose your personal information if permitted by law or required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to protect or defend our interests or the interests of our customers or users of our site.

Your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of use of this site, which include this Privacy Statement, constitute the granting of consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information for the purposes set out above.

Unsubscribe Instructions

You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe whenever we communicate with you. If you would like to unsubscribe from Eight O'Clock Coffee communications please click here or email your instructions to EOC_unsubscribe@s3s3s3.com.

Security

We take security seriously and we take precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us, or information stored on our servers, will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail.

Access to your Information

At your request, where the law requires us to do so, we will confirm what personal information we hold about you, update your information, remove your information and/or correct any inaccuracies in such personal information if you contact us using the details provided above. We will make every effort to respond to your request in a timely manner.

Children's Privacy

We recognize the particular importance of protecting privacy where children are involved. We are committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations regarding children, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). This site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, do not send us any information about yourself. When we become aware that personally identifiable information for children under the age of 13 has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

Links

This site may contain links or references to other Web sites outside of our control. Please be aware that we have no control over these sites and our privacy statement does not apply to these sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements and terms and conditions of linked or referenced sites you enter.

How to Contact Us:

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Eight O'Clock Coffee Company
20 East Susquehanna Ave.
Towson, MD 21286
800-299-2739
Last updated on April 2008.